Though he lost the 1976 Republican nomination, Reagan ran again for the presidency in 1980 and succeeded in winning the nomination and election.

Though CNN had been running 24-hour newscasts since 1980, it was not until the Gulf War that the general public took large notice and others imitated CNN's non-stop news approach.

Though Kohl's election was done according to the Basic Law, some voices criticized the move as the FDP had fought its 1980 campaign on the side of the SPD and even placed Chancellor Schmidt on some of their campaign posters.

Though adversely effected by the Depression, Hermleigh remained stable throughout most of the twentieth century and by 1980 was home to over 700 residents.

Though the experiment was then applied countrywide in 1980, it was reversed in 1986, but then most of the Air Defense Forces's command and control duties and assests became part of the Air Force, as well as several educational and training institutions.

Though, the pilot was not picked, it did air on ABC-TV on 29 June 1980.

Though he later formed another rock band with Russell Webb and John McGeoch called The Armoury Show-named after a 1913 New York modernist art exhibition, Jobson and Webb also became a vital part of the career of Virginia Astley, which began in 1980.

( http :// www. ciclops. org / view_event / 178 / Lightning_Flashing_in_Daylight ) Though three visiting spacecrafts – Pioneer 11 in 1979, Voyager 1 in 1980 and Voyager 2 in 1981, failed to provide any convincing evidence from optical observations, in July of 2012 the Cassini spacecraft detected visible lightning flashes, and electromagnetic sensors aboard the spacecraft detected signatures that are characteristic of lightning.

Though San Francisco finished 1980 with a record of 6-10, Montana passed for 1, 795 yards and 15 touchdown passes against nine interceptions.

Though Visage's first single was unsuccessful, they signed with Polydor Records in 1980, and their second single, " Fade to Grey ", became a hit.

Though the mainstream pop market considers the team a one-hit wonder for " It's Raining Men " ( though the song did not make the Top 40 in the US, peaking at # 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), they recorded three songs which peaked at # 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart under the " Two Tons o ' Fun " name: " Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven " ( 1980 ); " Just Us " ( 1980 and also made # 29 on the US R & B chart ); and the Hi-NRG song " I Got the Feeling " in 1981.

Though primarily a forum for intellectual discussion, it became radicalized after Obote's rigged election of 1980 resulted in many Tutsi refugees joining Museveni in fighting the Ugandan Bush War.

Though attendance went up in 1980 to 9, 864 a match, this was still only 17th in the league and the team were again last in their division, though McCreadie's old Chelsea mate Charlie Cooke had taken over as coach.

Though he resigned in 1980, his term was marked by the formation of many Malian sports organizations.

Though Carter was hardly held blameless for the creation of the new national monuments, Gravel was taken to task for the unpopular decision as well and was denied his party's nomination for his Senate seat in the 1980 election.

Though the practice of deriving a V6 from a V8 was not unheard of ( auto manufacturers have derived V6s from V8 designs before, such as GM making the 1978 -‘ 79 Chevrolet 200 cid ( 3. 3 L ) V6 / 90 ° from the lowly 267 cid ( 4. 4L ) SBC V8, the 1980 -' 84 Chevrolet 229 cid ( 3. 8L ) V6 / 90 ° from the 305 cid ( 5. 0L ) SBC V8 and the 1985-up Chevrolet 262 cid ( 4. 3L ) V6 / 90 ° Vortec 4300 from the SBC Vortec 5700 and Chrysler making the Magnum 3. 9 from the 5. 2 ), several important differences between the Windsor's design and the Essex's, such as their considerably different bore and stroke, made a common design lineage implausible.

Though recording was complete on a further album Heartbreak Hill, featuring Andy Richards on keyboards, Cousins ’ decision in 1980 to leave the band to work in radio effectively signalled the band ’ s demise, and the album remained in the vaults for many years.

Though an ardent supporter of the Reformation ( Pragman 1980 ), Taverner had no intention of becoming a martyr.

Though initially unsuccessful upon its release in the band's native UK ( where it peaked at # 72 in February 1980 ), the album returned to the charts in early 1982 after the commercial success of 1981's Tin Drum and the Hansa Records compilation Assemblage.

Though Narasimha Rao, India's foreign minister in 1980, agreed in principle to lease Jinnah House as the residence of local Consulate-General of Pakistan, the plan was never realised.

Though the essay is published in 1980, it appears to recapitulate the ideas presented in James S. Albus's 1976, book: Peoples ' Capitalism: The Economics of the Robot Revolution, though Albus proposes to prevent inflation through a mandatory savings plan, not through a gradual phase-in of a National Dividend.

Though he made his national team debut on 16 November 1977 ( lost 3 – 0 to Northern Ireland national football team ), he was not selected for the 1980 Euro where Belgium finished runner-up.

Though he supported Indira Gandhi during the Emergency in India ( 1975 – 1977 ), he left Congress in 1977 and joined Janata Party alliance in 1977, along with his Congress for Democracy, he later served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India ( 1977 – 1979 ), then in 1980, he formed Congress ( J ).

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.

Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

Though the Balkan allies had fought together against the common enemy, that was not enough to overcome their mutual rivalries.

Though Havana, which had become the third-largest city in the Americas, was to enter an era of sustained development and closening ties with North America during this period, the British occupation of the city proved short-lived.

Though Gauss had up to that point been financially supported by his stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve support.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Though Chiang had achieved status abroad as a world leader, his government deteriorated as the result of corruption and inflation.

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.